writing-release-notes

writing-release-notes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pvliesdonk/markdown-vault-mcp. It costs 35 tokens per session (4,691 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for preparing human-readable release notes, which explain what changed in a software release. They cover new pages, updates to existing pages, and backfilling older releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to prepare, refresh, or rewrite release-note pages under docs/releases/ before opening a review pull request.
Why use it?
They help release notes stay accurate, consistent, and supported by research from the repository's history.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use them to prepare, refresh, or rewrite release-note pages under docs/releases/ before opening a review pull request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pvliesdonk/markdown-vault-mcp/writing-release-notes
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add pvliesdonk/markdown-vault-mcp --skill writing-release-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pvliesdonk/markdown-vault-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Your own site
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,691 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 8
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • high Prompt Injection · line 268
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 387
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00035 $0.04691
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.02346
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00938
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00469

Measured 9d ago against content hash 84b29e5ec6f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-release-notes scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.agents/skills/writing-release-notes/SKILL.md · 412 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 412 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing release notes

The pages under docs/releases/ are the canonical human-facing narrative of each release; the GitHub release body is a summary plus a link to them, and CHANGELOG.md is the machine-written commit-level audit trail. This skill is the contract for producing a page: what to research, what counts as evidence, what the page looks like, and which gates it must pass. Every requirement below was established empirically by trial runs recorded on pvliesdonk/fastmcp-server-template#347; where this skill says "must", a trial produced the failure the rule prevents.

Choose the mode

  • prepare-next: research through the selected release branch head and write docs/releases/next.md.
  • refresh-known-target: update an existing docs/releases/X.Y.md entry for the stable identity shared by an RC series.
  • backfill/redraft: update a shipped canonical page.

Before research, record the repository, base branch, mode, stable target when known, previous stable tag, and range-end commit SHA. Ask the human for any value that cannot be derived unambiguously.

An existing page's <!-- notes-range-end: SHA --> watermark records where its last accepted research ended. For prepare-next, RANGE_END is the selected release branch head. For canonical refreshes and backfills, use the stable identity and exact vX.Y.Z summary markers already present in the page.

Incremental research (patch and redraft modes)

The accepted page is the cache; do not re-research a range the page already covers. When the page carries the watermark:

  • If the watermark SHA equals RANGE_END, the page's researched content is already current: do no re-research and leave the prose alone. Say what you verified in the pull request body.
  • Otherwise research only WATERMARK..RANGE_END (the same fan-out and evidence rules, over the delta), fold the findings into the existing narrative — extend a theme, add one, or leave prose untouched when the delta is stamps and mechanics — and verify claims the delta might have invalidated rather than re-deriving the whole page.
  • Always move the watermark to RANGE_END when you touch the page, and write it (once, at the top of the page after the front matter or title) when you create a page.

Read the full file on GitHub · 412 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 412 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 84b29e5ec6f0

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writing-release-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository pvliesdonk/markdown-vault-mcp (32 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 4,691 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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